XP Sound Problems - Try this out

Stian · #1 November 13th, 2005, 12:58 PM

If quartz.dll is used then the playback of mp3 files should work, are you sure this crash is related to sound playback and not some gfx driver issue?

Anyhow - you could try installing for instance AC3 filter to play mp3 instead of the default - I'm using it now with no problems...
http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/formats/ac3.shtml

Also you could try FFDShow or a third-party mp3-filter:
http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/formats/ffdshow.shtml
http://www.inmatrix.com/zplayer/formats/mp3.shtml

S.

Beeblebrox · #2 November 26th, 2005, 05:48 PM

Sorry for not replying for ages. Lots of work and other non-gaming bits for a while. About the causality of the misbehaviour of the game. It works splendid, albeit boringly silent, if i turn the sounds off. It crashes in a few turns if i turn sounds on. I do not use mp3, since I did the wav thing suggested as a first step of trouble-shooting. On my comp, wavs are played back by quartz.dll, mp3s are not. If I were to let the game play mp3:s again, I would have to delete all installed codec to end up with the quartz.dll that has already proved inept in the wav-scenario. In sum, it certainly seems that sound is an issue here, and it would seem unlikely that mp3 would work, when wav does not. I think I'll just play silent until I do my yearly reinstall of winXP. (If that helps)

Fortunately, the game runs smoothly on my laptop (normally used for work-related stuff) :-)

Stian · #3 November 30th, 2005, 04:34 PM

Well, sorry to hear you have not yet fixed it. But on the other hand, thankfully SP is one of the few games where sound is not 'really' necessary, at least not for me.

I usually listen to the radio or music when playing the game, the sound doesn't really give me anything useful anyhow

Stian

Beeblebrox · #4 December 4th, 2005, 04:40 PM

Oki. Latest and hopefully last post in this thread on my behalf. Did my annual windows reinstall yesterday. Installed lastest realtek drivers for the ac97 (which, it said would be MS-signed, which of course was not the case, at least according to my win XP). Now, for the first time I can actually enjoy mayhem with sound for more than 2-3 rounds. The game has yet to crash, in fact! However, there appears to be something at least mildely wrong still, as sound volume would suddenly drop, only to reappear again a few moves later. Dunno what that's all about, but I really don't care at this point. All in all I'm quite happy with this level of enjoyment. Thanks all for helping out.

Wonder · #5 January 8th, 2006, 04:25 PM

Used Goldwave to convert the .MP3s to .WAV and the game no longer crashes, but there's a delay everytime the game plays a sound. Particularly annoying with artillery barrages as it takes an eternity for them to complete!

Mobhack · #6 January 9th, 2006, 12:38 PM

Which version of the game? - have you applied the patches to the latest version?.

Fast artillery on or off?.

Cheers
Andy

Wonder · #7 January 9th, 2006, 06:33 PM

Ehh... never mind! Messing with the animation delay values helped